Summary:
A lot of work needs to be done in this direction,” said Dr Gian Singh.The study also highlighted the working conditions of these women. According to it, 90.46% women were not even aware of the standard working hours and minimum wages ensured under the law and 36.87% women are not being paid equal wages when compared with men. The researchers have collected primary data from 1,017 households across 12 districts of Punjab and it revealed that women labourers were suffering as a direct consequence of the agrarian crisis that gripped the state.Dr Gian Singh said the agrarian crises that hit the state after the fading of the Green Revolution, forced the women labourers into a debt trap. According to Dr Thind, prior to this study there had been no primary data available to the policy makers and lack of data has, over the years, affected the formulation of good policies. The conditions also leave them susceptible to diseases..